Chapter 3: Red hawk

To the south in Empire of Arlisia is great spirit forest where the one of the ruin of the old civilization lies.

A man taking in the camp of the red hawks Kirima’s elite raiding team “The old civilization was a advanced race that drew the fiends up north. But the fiends started eat their own, evolving and becoming strong. This new species and the internal conflicts resulted in the down fall of the once great civilization. Though the specious that is said to be the down fall of the civilization has never resurfaced since then it is dreaded that when they do it will be the end of humanity. And hence every human is trying to arm themselves with the artefacts of this great kingdom by raiding their ruins.”

“Shut it! Trevor. Don’t you get tired of repeating the same story in every ruin we raid”

“Calm down Harris, don’t bully Trevor. His stories have become a type of ritual for the squad before venture into a ruin”

“Connor it’s not that Harris is bullying Trevor, I think he is fears that oral prophecy might come true”

“Yeah! Like your one to talk, don’t you think Tim”

“**** off, wade”

“Ooo, looks like I hit a nerve their, don’t you think blake”

“......”

“You do know he his 50ft up in the tree on lookout rigth?” asks Tim rhetorically.

“that’s enough fooling around.”

“yes, boss”

“hey Jack, what did the big boss want to talk about?” asks wade

Jack replies “ Apparently he is sending someone to command this raid.”

Tim exclaims “ oh! The big boss sent someone to command us, must be powerful as heck!”

Jack stands silently looking concerned.

Harris enquires “ Boss what’s wrong? Is the new hard to work with or some kind of egotistical jerk?”

“No. On the contrary he has low mana control, basically D-class best” replied Jack.

“what? Is the big boss really sent such guy to command his best raiding squad?” asked Harris angrily.

“ Yeah! He said, Do three things when working with him follow his every command, don’t insult him and the third and the most important do not speak anything about his father or master, he stressed heavily on the last one.” Explained Jack.

“ What father and master?” asked Trevor being confused.

“ Must be some kind of family issue, best not to dive in” remarked Blake

“ But still we have to listen to his every command, isn’t it a bit extreme” Wade comments.

“ Oi, looks like he’s here, better shut up” advised Blake.

Asahi walks to the camp in his casual looking clothes having no equipment whatsoever.....

The red hawk unit staring in disappointment at this casual looking guy thinking this is the guy that’s going to take command on the raid.

Jack initiates the conversation “ Hello sir, you must be Asahi. We were informed of you by Kirima.”

“Ah, you are Jack right a magic swordsman and the captain of this unit , next to you Trevor the squad’s archer, the great swordsman Harris, Wade the dual short sword wielder, Tim and Conor the resident magus and lastly on the tree is Blake the squad’s assassin and lieutenant. Nice to meet you. I hope we can work together and get along.” Asahi greets with naive smile.

The red hawks respond saying yes. Asahi commanded that they will be departing in half an hour and get ready.

Blake drops from the tree to talk to his team.

Harris remarks “ what a tool.”

Connor, Tim, Wade and Trevor agree with Harris.

Wade asks “boss what do you think?”

“Not sure. Something about that guy is off” responds jack.

“Off...” Connor comments.

“I agree with Jack. I don’t whether he is strong or not but he is dangerous. I can feel it in my gut. At the very least do what Kirima said.”  Said Blake with a wary look .

The red hawk with Asahi enters the ruin.

“Jack and Blake you will be by my side to protect me, we’ll be the rear guard, Harris you’ll take the lead, Tim and wade support Harris, Connor and Trevor you’ll deal with long range attacks ” ordered Asahi.

Though the dive still didn’t want to take orders from Asahi, they decided to follow because of Jack and Blake’s stand when outside.

Monsters, puzzles and task come what may, Asahi commanding the team the most efficient way possible. They might be one of the strongest A-class team but they had never cleared a dungeon with such ease. On top of this, the difficulty had raised to S-class, still because of Asahi the ploughed through.

This did not go unnoticed by the squad as they neared the end they had accepted Asahi command blindly, even when he asked to throw their lives they did so voluntarily, but to every one’s surprise they maid it to the guardian’s chamber without a single scratch.

Asahi’s naive tone also had changed to how he would talk to Kirima. The squad recognised his excellence as a strategist and agreed with Kirima’s decision.

The final push had arrived, The guardian’s chamber. The door opened, everybody entered. The door closed between their backs.

Connor: “ how is this possible?”

Tim: “I must be dreaming”

Harris : “ We are going to die”

Trevor: “ Its been a honour serving with you”

Wade: “ come on guys don’t lose your will before the actual fight”

Blake: “ Brave words, but still considering what we are facing it’s natural.”

Jack: “ Asahi, we came all this way without a single scratch because of your commands. So I will ask you, Can we defeat something, even those who rose to become legends couldn’t?”

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